Birthday: 13 January 1928, Wendell, North Carolina, USA
Birth Name: Bernard Wasdon Mattox
Height: 193 cm
Gregory Walcott grew up in North Carolina and went into the Army just after the end of World War II. After leaving the service, he grew restless on the East Coast and, with $100 in his pocket, thumbed his way west to pursue an acting career. An agent who spotted him in a little theater play helped Walcott land his debut movie role in Red Skies of M...
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Gregory Walcott grew up in North Carolina and went into the Army just after the end of World War II. After leaving the service, he grew restless on the East Coast and, with $100 in his pocket, thumbed his way west to pursue an acting career. An agent who spotted him in a little theater play helped Walcott land his debut movie role in Red Skies of Montana (1952). Two years later, on the strength of his performance as a drill instructor in the Marine Corps movie Battle Cry (1955), he was placed under contract at Warner Brothers. He co-starred (as a drill instructor again) in another Marine Corps story, The Outsider (1961), which earned him a Universal contract and his own TV series, 87th Precinct (1961) (1961-62) with Robert Lansing. Show less «
[on playing villains] The villains always seemed to have a little more dimension, a little more colo...Show more »
[on playing villains] The villains always seemed to have a little more dimension, a little more color, a little more character. It's kind of fun, too. Show less «
[on starring in Edward D. Wood Jr.'s Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)] I didn't want to be remembered ...Show more »
[on starring in Edward D. Wood Jr.'s Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)] I didn't want to be remembered for that. But it's better to be remembered for something than for nothing, don't you think? Show less «